Oreña v. City of Santa Barbara
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Santa Barbara County, and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Temple, C.
This is an action to quiet title to a strip of land about sixteen feet wide, claimed by plaintiff to be a part of block 268 in the city of Santa Barbara, and by the defendant to constitute a portion of Gutierrez Street.
In 1851 the city of Santa Barbara, being the proprietor of the ungranted lands within its limits, contracted with Haley for a map of the city, and for a survey and division into blocks and streets of a certain portion of the lands. ■ Haley agreed to divide the city into squares of 150 yards by streets sixty feet wide, and “to mark each angle of said squares with…
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